autobiography
Americannoun
plural
autobiographiesnoun
Other Word Forms
- autobiographer noun
Etymology
Origin of autobiography
Example Sentences
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Le Carré, who died at age 89 in 2020, recounts in his autobiography “The Pigeon Tunnel” how he discovered the case in his mother Olive’s home shortly after her death in 1989.
While The Cat in The Cupboard is his first children's book, Brydon is already a successful author after the release of his 2011 autobiography, Small Man in a Book.
From BBC
"She taught us manners and respect," he wrote in his autobiography Guardian of the Streets, often reminding him money meant little compared with how you treated others.
From BBC
He sued Bardot for emotional damage when she published an autobiography in which she stated that she would have preferred to "give birth to a little dog".
From BBC
This means that many of the questions, chosen from hundreds submitted from around the world, are meant to prompt Nighy into giving sprawling answers, peppered with bits of autobiography, about matters of opinion.
From Salon
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